St. Paul daily globe., 1887-08-22
WALKERS BLACK EYE.
All Tompkinsville in a Pretty Tor
mOil Over it.
He Got it for kissing and Hugging
Jessie Solomon.


lage of TOmpkinsville, Staten Island,
has real, live, vigorous sensation all
! to itself. but just now it is enjoying that
pleasure.
For Capt. John Parker Walker, u. S.
| a., is carefully nursing an exceedingly
black eye that he got in the most start
ling manner imaginable. Capt. Walker
| Is now retired from active service, but up
! t01SS3 he was captain in the Third cav
| ally regiment of the United States army.
He is member of the Grand Army of
the Republic, Lafayette post. of the
Manhattan Chess club and of the Ohio
society. He is handsome-all but the
black eye-gentleman of exceedingly
pleasant manners, and, always barring
that right eye of his, has an unusually
| dignitied appearance. He was at West
Point when the war broke out, and after
serving in the field returned there and
| graduated in 1866. So he says.
David Solomon blacked his eye. AT
least Mr.. Solomon and his son William
| did it. The father said: ''NOw, lick
him, Bill. If you don't I'll lick you,"
and Bill did as he was told, the old gen.
tleman assisting with two or three Wig
OrOus punches.
Mr.. Solomon is rich and much re-
| spected citizen of TOmpkinsville. At
least he owns ten or a dozen houses
| there, and, as Staten Island houses 60,
! it's thought that he is worth $4,000 or
s2O,0OO-maybe more. He has retired
| from the grocery business, in which he
| amaSSed his fortune, and is now Occu-
! pied looking after his property, his fam
| lily and a troublesome rheumatism
which annoys him at times. So he
says.
| Jessie Solomon is David SolOmon's s
| third daughter. He has four others and
| four sons as we'll. Jessie is sixteen
years old and is reputed very handsome
and Sprightly. She keeps house for her
father, her older sisters being married.
Jessie Solomon was not to be seen
when the reporter called at her fathers
house last night. Her father wouldn't
let her be seen. He said the story
mustn't be published. He wouldn't
allow it. And then he told all the de-
tails to four reporters.
The Solomon homestead is a comfort
able house on the corner of Sherman
avenue and the Richmond turnpike. A
| block or two below on the turnpike,
Mrs. Eliza Carr keeps candy store and
sells ice-cream. Her daughter Annie is
very pretty. She is about fifteen years
| old. She and Jessie are great friends.
Charley Jansen is reported to be Annie's
| beau.
Capt. Walker boards with Mrs. Sharp.
| Mrs. Sharp is New York lady who
hires from Banker II. l.. Horton fur
nished house in ''HOrtOn'S Row." where
she takes summer bOarders. Tompkins-
vile people are not acquainted with
Mrs. Sharp's boarders and they say i'll
natured things about the house and its
1 30 L., l. <loxr
overlook the New York bay, the Rich
mond turnpike and Mr.. SolOmon'S S
| house.
Into the midst of this pleasant COM
bination of circumstances trouble came
and the sensation ensued.
For the captain hugged and kissed
Jessie, so she says, and inSulted her by
asking her to meet him one evening.
And Jessie cried and went to her mar
| ried sister and told her. and the sister
told her husband, and the husband told
| his which was David
Solomon-and David Solomon told Will
lam, and thereupOn David and William
! berated the gallant captain in a vigor-
| Gus way.
And now they are talking-at least
| David Solomon iS-of tarring and
| feathering the captain. And every vii
/
! an hour and half was talking about
what terrible things were going to be
! done to the captain if Solomon hadn't
thraShed him.
Everybody, excepting Capt. Walker
and his landlady and fellow-bOarders,
| told the story eagerly and, wonderful to
| tell, all the stories agreed.
According to this accumulated teSti-
mony, Capt. Walker is fond of looking
| well-favOred girls and pretty women.
| He is alleged to have stared at several
| in way to annoy them, to have spoken
| to three or four without previous intro
duction and to have gone to the extreme
length of tapping one or two on the
| shoulder. 1t does not appear that his
action has been resented by any of the
! is certain that his first acquaintance
| with her, though made in such way,
was not resented.
He saw her and Annie Carr together
at the ice cream store a week ago and
chatted with them. A few days later
he saw Annie and asked her to have
| some ice cream with him. Annie is
sprightly, but has sharply defined ideas
| of prOpriety.
II told him. she said, with a toss of
her pretty head, ''that | didn't eat
cream with married men. He said he
wasn't married. l told him l under
stood he was"
Three or four times in the week the
| captain has met Jessie and chatted with
| her, but appears to have made no i'm
| preston on her fancy. Friday after
| noon she was in the ice cream parlOr
when he entered it and called to Mrs.
Carr for two plates of ice cream. While
she was getting the cream he was alone in
the little back parlOr with Jessie, and
presently Jessie emerged, much agi-
| tated. Annie Carr was just going out
and Jessie joined her. Outside she
burst in tears and told Annie that the
captain had hugged and kissed her.
| They walked down the street a few
| doors and entered the side door of a
grocery store, where they told the facts
to Burley Mr. Peters, who noticed pres
emily that the captain came out and
looked around as if looking for the girl.
Mrs. Carr says he had paid for the two
plates of cream, but had not eaten
them.
There were a good many people in
Tompkinsville besides the SolOmons
who knew the story yesterday morning,
and when David and William Solomon
came down the street after Capt. Walker
the village smelled blood and a big
crowd gathered.
''He came down past my place about
$780, said Mr.. Solomon, land | spoke
to him, asking him what he meant by
insulting my daughter. He said, why,
you are crazy and L told him wasn't
crazy just at that time. Then lady
came along from his house, and waited
till she got by and then tackled him
again. We had some words and he told
me l lied. Then he went down as far as
the candy store and William and0I fol-
| lowed him. He went into the candy
store and we followed. didn't want to
| have trouble in there, so | showed him
outside and told Bill to lick him. And
| Bill did lick him, but he didn't lick him
half enough"
| ..Did Won help?- asked the reporter.